Eminem’s pacing his way into the history books as his sales for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 keep growing. According to Billboard, the album sold another 13,000 copies, pushing the total numbers sold over two million. As it stands, all of Marshall’s albums have scored over two millions copies sold.

The small sales increase mattered in another big way for Em as his cumulative sales currently stand at 44.91 million. The total pushes him past country legend George Strait (44.89 million) for number six on the best-selling album artists list. Em’s now the second-highest male seller on the list behind Garth Brooks, who leads all with 69.52 million. The Beatles ranks second (65.55 million) and Metallica places third (54.26 million) while Mariah Carey (54.24 million) and Celine Dion (52.21 million) round out the top five.

On one hand I applaud em for the numbers and I truly think he is one of the greats (top 7 all time IMO) – on the other hand I’m sure this can be debated but this has to have a * beside his #s only bc of the obvious – imagine if he were black with the same skill set he at best would be a RAWCUS RECORDS all time great (RR combined sells don’t equal half of EMs) – at the end of the day it is about selling records and he has done that in basketball terms JAY Z=MICHEAL JORDAN – Em=Wilt Chamberlain

The fucked up thing about Em is that nobody wanted to sign a white boy. They all knew he could spit but nobody black (Def Jam, Rawcus, etc.) wanted to sign him because he was white. Then add the fact that half of his music come from the struggle of being a white boy from the hood. So if he wasn’t white he wouldn’t have made the classics many, myself included, know and love.
Bottom line: when it comes to race Em is fucked either way. Most heads didn’t want to fuck with him because he was white, and some of his fans only fuck with him because he is white.

Nevermind Em. How the fuck is Garth Brooks at the top of this list? Real talk, WTF is going on here.

BTW, if Soundscan’s only been around 23 years then that list is fucking worthless. Napster got popular in 2000 so what you’re telling me is only 10 of those years come from when music actually sold.

No disrespect to Em meant at all (dude has made a lot of great music and is also getting me another Loaded Lux battle this year), but let’s revisit this list when we can at least get music from 1970s-1990.